Emergency Field Site Manager ER-003

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***NOTE*** - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.


JOB DESCRIPTION
Supervision of International Medical Corps field assessment teams, ensuring proper conduct and information gathering techniques are being upheld.
Direct supervision of field site support staff in collaboration with Medical Officers, Programme Coordinators and the Team Leader.
Support, motivate and supervise field program/logistics/ administrative/finance staff in their work, by information exchange, brainstorming and planning sessions

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES:
• Office Set Up
Locate and set up International Medical Corps field offices ensuring that all departments are established (HR, Finance, IT, Communications, Programmes, logistics)
Locate and establish warehouse space
Hire and train national staff
Ensure adherence to International Medical Corps housing policy

• Emergency Funding
With the team, identify funding opportunities and contribute to the design of new program concepts and support of International Medical Corps emergency program development

• Stakeholder Mapping
Responsible for researching and recording humanitarian and local authority activities, by sector and by region – to identify program gaps and to strengthen coordination of activities and general relationships with other organizations.

• Reporting
Facilitate and assure accurate and well-documented reporting internally within International Medical Corps and to donors
Assure that such reporting contributes to the effective management of the program and meets donor quality standards and compliance regulations

• Security
Ensure monitoring of the security situation by the security focal point and ensure implementation of security rules and regulations

• Representation and Outreach
Represent International Medical Corps to donor bodies, the Ministry of Health, UN agencies, other NGOs and local authorities